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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, May 14, 1964
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GAZETTE-TIMES
MOEBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Heppner
Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15,
1912.
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WESLEY A. SHERMAN
Editor and Publisher
HELEN E. SHERMAN
Associate Publisher
Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published
Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon,
as Second Class Matter.
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Recommended: Measure No. 1 Yes (X)
Measure No. 1, upon which voters of the state will cast ballots
at the primary election Friday, is a sound "pay as you grow"
approach to a big problem facing Oregonians that of providing
facilities for education of its rapidly-accelerating numbers of
college youth.
The need is factual: There are now approximately 34,000
'students in the state's institutions of higher education. By 1970,
the number will be nearly double that number. In community
colleges around the state the number enrolled today is only a
few thousand, but this will grow to an estimated 22,000 in a
few years.
, Measure No. 1 provides for a state bond issue of $30 million,
of which $25 million would go to the higher education insti
tutions for buildings and $5 million to construction for com
munity colleges.
A state property tax will almost certainly not be levied to
repay the 30-year bond issue. Rather, passage of the measure
might be the means of reducing local property taxes to some
extent through basic school support funds that might be re
leased if this bonded source for buildings ia provided.
At Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, one of the
main college buildings an old one was virtually destroyed
by the Columbus Day storm In 1962. At Eastern Oregon college
a science building is badly needed and start had been made
when the state tax program was defeated in October, 1963,
putting an immediate halt to the work. At Blue Mountain Col
lege, land has been purchased for new buildings, but the
college is able to exist today only because of "loans" of facil
ities from Pendleton school district, the National Guard and
others. The tax defeat in October also stopped construction
here. These are just a few examples of the building plans
that would materialize if the measure passes.
If the measure is approved, the state will qualify for about
$2,700,000 in Federal matching monies that otherwise will go
to other states.
Need for the buildings is undeniable. A delay in providing
for them could only result in increased costs as materials
and labor continuously climb. Thus, it would be false economy
to wait.
By using the bond issue method of financing, students
benefitting from the new buildings as college students will share
In paying for them as they become taxpayers.
Safeguards are written into the bill that protect taxpayers
from the funds being used unwisely (see Oregon Voter, May
9, page 30).
This measure provides the most painless way for taxpayers
to cope with the need. Repayment of the bonds, extended over
30 years, will not be a strain on anyone. It is expected that
income and inheritance tax proceeds and liquor revenue, climbing
in total as the economy expands, will more than provide funds
to do the job.
A yes vote is recommended on Measure No. 1.
Armed Forces Day Events Scheduled
Armed Forces Day open house events at the Army Depot,
Hermiston, and at the Condon Air Force Station this week-end
give the public an opportunity to see interesting shows and
displays. But these observances are more than just a matter
of passing interest. They will demonstrate what is being done
by the armed forces in our own vicinity for national defense
and the importance of those installations to all Americans.
The Umatilla depot and the air force station, besides their
part in national defense, bring well-appreciated economic bene
fits to eastern Oregon.
Personnel at the two installations have gone to great effort
to provide entertaining and informative events, and those who
go will find the time very well spent. Attendance will demon
strate the public's appreciation and will be a tribute to the
personnel involved on Armed Forces Day. The depot's event
Is Saturday, and the station's open house is Sunday, thus
making it possible for a person to attend both. News stories
are elsewhere in this paper with more details.
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Senior Receives
Four-Year Award
William Edward Sherman of
Heppner has been named for
the 1964 District and County
Scholarships by the Oregon State
Scholarship Commission, E. B
Lemon, commission chairman
announces.
He was chosen from a field of
more than 600 applicants for the
mission awaidsrmade Stnkvry.ic
mission awards made through
out the state. These scholarships,
given annually to Oregon high
school seniors, may be used at
any institution of the Oregon
State System of Higher Educa
tion and are one of three types
of scholarships awarded by the
commission. Others include cash
awards which may be used at
private, as well as state sys
tem, colleges and universities.
Recipients of the scholarship
awards were approved by the
entire membership of the State
Scholarship Commission, which
includes Mrs. E. B. MacNaughton
and Thomas L. Scanlon, Port
land; Sidney Schlesinger, Salem
and Lynn S. McCready, Eugen,
in addition to chairman- E. B.
Lemon, Corvallis. David D. John
son, Eugene, is executive secre
tary. Bill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wes
Sherman, is valedictorian of the
Heppner High school class of
1964 and is serving as student
body president this year.
Chaff and Chatter
Wes Sherman
"PANCHO," the little terrier who
is sometimes accused of being
ot Heinz background (57 var
ieties), is as good as a magnetic
compass when it comes to lo
cating her owner, LaVerne Van
Marter, Jr. To keep the record
straight and her dignity unruff
led, Pancho is actually part fox
terrier and part chihuahua. '
When Verne leaves the office
of T., Van M. and B., and Pancho
is not privileged to accompany
him, the dog sits alertly in a
chair with its nose pointing con
sistently and unfalteringly in
the direction its master has
gone.
If Van Marter goes to the
Elks lodge, Pancho unerringly
points to the lodge building With
her nose. If the master happens
to be in the barber shop, the
nose points across the street to
the barber shop. You may divert
Pancho for a few minutes by
petting her, or by calling her
name, but the nose inevitably
goes back to pointing in the
direction of her master.
Frank Turner can come into
the office after Van Marter has
left and tell where he has gone
by the dog's pointing nose.
Thus, Pancho is real handy
Rousing Vote Turnout Needed
Today (Thursday) brings an end to an interesting primary
election campaign. Voters go to the polls tomorrow (Friday).
There are enough contests on the ballots to stir a rousing1
vote, and anything less than an 80 turnout will be disappoint
ing. The candidates who have stepped forth and demonstrated
their interest in good government deserve this type of response.
Certainly Morrow county has never had as much participation
for one position as it does in the party nominations for county
judge.
There is plenty of speculation on the possible outcome of
the judge races, but results would be mighty hard to predict at
this time. There have been no polls nor straw votes to offer
clues, and the suspense mounts.
It is trite, indeed, to urge all qualified voters to go to the
polls Friday, but it is nonetheless fitting and proper to em
phasize it once more.
. When the vote is divided among so many candidates as it
is in the judge races this time, each vote becomes consequently
more Important because it will take fewer votes to nominate
the winner. Yours could be the deciding one!
Candidates for judge have stressed that the county can well
leadership is highly important in the county's development,
be on the verge of great progress and economic development.
Indications the coming of Boeing, the progress of the Willow
Creek project and others support their contention.
Now it becomes a matter for voters to decide who can best
fulfill the shoes of the county's top administrative office at
a time when excellent leadership is needed. This paper is not
going to make any recommendations, but it does urge again
that each voter give most thoughtful consideration to each
man's qualifications in light of what the future holds. This
should not be considered a popularity contest. The very best
Shalt the Mountain Go to Mohammed?
When County Judge Oscar Peterson and Oliver Creswick were
in Washington, D. C, in connection with the Willow Creek dam
project two weeks ago, they heard talk, and apparently serious
talk, about the proposal to divert some of the waters of the
Columbia River to California to supply that state's growing
needs.
Senator Henry Jackson told Inland Empire Waterways dele
gates that California has water resources of its own that it
could develop to supply its needs but considers that the Colum
bia could be diverted more economically.
These brash neighbors in the southern state apparently
believe in the old saying, "If Mohammed won't go to the
mountain, bring the mountain to Mohammed."
Oregon offers, according to information brought out during
the negotiations on the Boardman site for Boeing, the nation's
best industrial sites today, particularly along the Columbia
from Tortland to Pasco, where the river will be all slack water
when the John Day dam is completed.
Certainly there is no better place and no more beautiful
place tp live than in Oregon.
To go to all the expense of diverting the river (and the cost
would be astronomical) is preposterous and ridiculous. If such
a thing were done, what would happen when the Northwest's
population grows to the point as it surely will when it needs
all the water itself?
It makes much better sense that the Californians move to
the Columbia than for the Columbia to be moved to California.
Welcome to Oregon!
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to have around. She's just as
good as leaving a note.
Only thing Verne has to
worry about is not getting into
trouble with the revenooers or
someone like that In that case,
Pancho would be a dead give
away. A TRAVELING MAN dropped in
to the office today and beam
ingly offered congratulations on
our fine weather here. It was
pouring in Portland when he
left, said he.
Apparently he hasn't heard.
We cautioned him about going
around congratulating people on
the weather here when every
one's tongue is hanging out for
rain, the crops are hurting and
the range is drying up.
Max Barclay came into the
back shop the other day, and
watching1 the paper in produc
tion, declared, "You fellows have
it lucky. You use your metal
over and over, but the farmer
can't use his pro'duct more than
once." (Ed. note: Metal used in
newspaper production is melted
down when the paper is printed
and made into "pigs" to feed the
linotype for the next issue's
type).
We replied to Mr. Max, "The
farmer uses his soil over and
over every year." But that didn't
"Oh, no!" said he, "Not this
year. It's all blowed away!"
THERE CERTAINLY has never
been anything like what the
television networks and wire
services are doing this year to
cover the primary election in
Oregon, They are pouring untold
sums into the mere matter of
getting the information out fast
on the Republican presidential
primary.
They have been putting on so
much pressure, in fact, that
Sadie Parrish, county clerk, is
about to scream, and the count
ing boards are harassed nearly
to death. All of them want the
"fustest and the mostest" on the
returns, and this inicludes the
ABC, NBC, CBS, UPI, AP, KUMA
and who knows who all.
They have set up two special
phones in the clerk's office and
one special phone in the G-T
office, which suddenly has be
come the "ABC News Election
Task Force," and they even left
us a red, white and blue banner
to proclaim it to the world.
If, in this great masterpiece
of over-organization, anybody
gets any returns in the confus
ion that results in the compet-
I itors climbing over each other,
it will be something ot a mir
acle. But we are all pledged to do
our best even the school teach
er army that ABC has recruited
to help on the returns and we
know that come 8:05 tomorrow
night (Friday) the telecasts will
be announcing results over the
networks
Apparently they have gone to
special pains to organize East
ern Oregon for fast returns on
TO THE
EDITOR. . .
Dear Mr. Editor:
Last Sunday, we had a Moth
er's Day tournament at the Wil
low Creek Country Club. It was
such a pleasure playing golf be
cause the course is in very good
shape due to the very long and
hard work of all members of
the club. The clubhouse is a
great asset and many hours of
donated time and money have
gone into this to make it a nice
place for the family to spend
a Sunday afternoon.
Teenagers and parents com
plain about the lack of recre
ation for teenagers in Heppner.
The members of the club have
been quite considerate of teen
age players, by offering them
the theory that count will be
completed quicker in the more
sparsely settled areas.
We'd surely like to have the
money that they are pouring in
to this. We'd have enough to
build a new bronze-plated G-T
building.
THIS, BY THE WAY, is another
example of what television is
doing to revolutionize our soc
iety. You may recall that when
Thomas E. Dewey and Harold
Stassen waged such a battle for
the Oregon presidential nomi
nation for the GOP, it attracted
keen interest, too, but it never
provoked such a stampede for
news coverage on election re
turns. Reason was that television yet
had not come into its heyday.
People could wait a few hours
in those days, but now minutes
count.
So again, by television, the
show is tending to become big
ger than the event itself.
WE NOTE by the newspapers
that some inebriate has set
what is probably a new world's
record for wrong-way driving. He
drove north all the way from
Eugene to Salem against traf
fic on one of the southbound
lanes of the 4-lane freeway.
And we can remember the
time our face turned deep red
when we found we had traversed
one block going the wrong way
on a one-way street in Portland!
This joker even forced Gov
ernor Mark Hatfield's limousine
off the road in his 60-mile jaunt
against traffic, although only
the governor's driver was in the
limousine at the time. The guy
apparently drove right past the
state police headquarters at Al
bany without being apprehended
and only stopped his trek when
he collided headon into a car
driven by a 19-year-old woman.
Can you imagine this drunk
driving all that distance against
traffic without somebody turn
ing him in? After he got stop
ped, he was charged with
drunken driving, but he was a
lethal weapon on the loose all
the way.
Kind of reminds one about the
recent article in Life magazine
which reported that 37 persons
watched a murder on the street,
and nobody did anything to stop
it! Thirty-seven heroes!
a special membership rate if
their parents do not belong to
the club.
Sometime Sat u r d a y night
someone wantonly inflicted de
struction on several of the fair
ways at the course. There were
deep ruts on the fairways where
someone had squirreled in a car.
Two of the golf flags had been
stolen, and one pole was gone.
The flags were not the best in
the world, but they were stitch
ed by hand by a member of the
club last year from canvass,
dyed yellow and the numbers
cut and sewn on individually.
This year we took them home,
repaired them and dyed them
red. We had the benefit of all
nine flags for only two weeks.
We fail to see any possible use
for golf flags other than for golf
flags.
This letter is not intended for
all teenagers since we have
many fine young golfers who
appreciate and use the course.
This destruction was probably
done by only a small number
of persons who have absolutely
no consideration for the property
of the public or individuals. Most
teenagers are capable of using
good judgment when they are
trusted by their parents to be
adult enough to be given the
use of an automobile.
Mrs. Eddie Gunderson, Jr.
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Coming Events
PRIMARY ELECTION
Friday, May 15, 8 a.m. to 8
p.m.
Support your favorite candi
date. Don't forget to votel
LITTLE LEAGUE OPENER
Saturday, May 16, 1:00 p.m.
Little League field.
Doubleheader.
ALASKA MOVIE
Full length color movie for
entire family.
Friday night, May 15, 8 p.m.
Heppner high evm.
Saturday, night, May 16, 8
p.m. lone High gym.
HEPPNER HIGH SCHOOL
BACCALAUREATE
Sunday, May 24, 8:00 p.m.
High school multipur pose
room.
Commencement, Wednesday,
May 27, 8:00 p.m.
High school gym.
Public invited.
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P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625
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